Category: Business Owners

What’s your favorite solution for quickly improving your company’s data security? Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most successful young entrepreneurs. YEC members represent nearly every industry, generate billions of dollars in revenue each year and have created tens of thousands of jobs. Learn more at yec.co. 1. Add a Web Application Firewall With the internet of things rapidly on the rise, I think it’s important[…]

It’s pretty easy to paralyze America’s oil infrastructure. All Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein needed was a set of 3-foot-long green-and-red bolt cutters. And a willingness to go to jail for years. On October 11, 2016, as they pulled up to an oil pipeline facility in the farm fields outside Leonard, Minnesota, the pair were bent on taking direct action[…]

Google announced changes to how it will handle claims of sexual harassment among employees, including making arbitration optional for individual harassment and sexual assault claims. While additional transparency and protection for workers is a sign of progress, the change is incremental, rather than transformative because Google’s arbitration provision still prohibits collective action. Harassment claims will no longer be forced into[…]

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shared a video Wednesday evening of CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s interaction with President Trump and a White House intern to defend the White House’s decision to revoke Acosta’s press pass. A WIRED review of Sanders’ video reveals that it originated with conservative media sites and was edited in a way that makes the[…]

Scaling your small business is not simple. It takes relentless effort and it means wearing many hats. You will need to learn all you can about sales and marketing and interact with customers on a daily basis. It’s also important to get to grips with corporate compliance and taxes. Scaling your business involves all these aspects and many more, which[…]

There is perhaps no greater example of Silicon Valley’s soft power than watching a debate around a grassroots proposal to fight homelessness transform into a Twitter war between tech billionaires and their preferred form of taxation. Rob Reich, author of the new book Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better, called the drama around[…]

Both Republicans and Democrats woke up Wednesday morning claiming victory in Tuesday’s midterms. Democrats patted themselves on the back for taking back the House of Representatives and flipping seven governorships from red to blue. And in a press conference, President Donald Trump praised his party, and himself, for gaining ground in the Senate. Americans remain sharply divided at the ballot[…]

Tuesday’s midterms don’t shed much light on the future of net neutrality. But advocates do see rays of hope shining through the fog of uncertainty. Democrats, who generally favor rules barring internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon from blocking or otherwise discriminating against content, took control of the House. And even after losing ground in the Senate, the party[…]

Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Changes to Google Ads Google has recently made some drastic changes to their ads program—starting with a name change, from Google AdWords to Google Ads. Some of the changes are technical, like tweaks to the interface. Others represent fundamental shifts in the way Google views advertising. These will affect more than just your Google[…]

Pinterest’s most recent update to their self-service Ad Manager is a game-changer for small and medium-sized businesses Pinterest has rebuilt the Ad Manager tool to be faster and easier to use, in the most notable update since the tool was introduced in 2016. These updates give small and medium-sized businesses visibility into the unique and relevant insights Pinterest has to offer. […]